Women in Journalism Education: The Formative Period, 1908–1930

Beasley, Maurine H.

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“…China. The growing influx of women enrolled in journalism courses has occurred in many countries (Beasley, 1985;Boateng, 2017;Franks, 2013). Consistent with this global trend, journalism has been a popular major among female Chinese students in recent decades (e.g., Wu, 2000).…”

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“…This study aims to explain the puzzling discrepancy between the large number of female journalism students and the comparatively fewer female journalists in the workforce in China. The growing influx of women enrolled in journalism courses has occurred in many countries (Beasley, 1985; Boateng, 2017; Franks, 2013). Consistent with this global trend, journalism has been a popular major among female Chinese students in recent decades (e.g., Wu, 2000).…”

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Where are the missing girls? Gender inequality, job precarity, and journalism students’ career choices in China

Guo

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2022

Journalism

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This study aims to explain the puzzling discrepancy between the large number of female journalism students and the comparatively fewer female journalists in the workforce in China today. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 graduates in journalism from the same class, we investigate the female students’ professional socialization process and analyze the external and internal factors that led most of them to choose a journalism major but not to join the journalism industry. Along the three significant phases in a funnel-shaped model—admission, college education and internship, and job market—we identify the combined influences of structural gender inequality and female students’ increasing gender awareness and agency. We further examine female students’ situation through the conceptual lens of precarity and discuss how it is manifested in ways that differ from those in the West. Our findings reveal a mixed picture of gender reality in Chinese journalism and in Chinese society.

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Where are the missing girls? Gender inequality, job precarity, and journalism students’ career choices in China

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Fang

2022

Journalism

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“…In addition, an important starting point is the recognition of women's role in the history of journalism education around the world. In the USA, Martha Louis Rayne of Michigan is generally acknowledged in journalism history as a pioneer in establishing journalism education specifically for women in 1886 (Beasley, 1985). However, journalism historians conveniently omit Rayne's role in the development of journalism training and the role of women in journalism.…”

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Reversal of Gender Disparity in Journalism Education- Study of Ghana Institute of Journalism

Boateng

2017

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Journalism has practically become a feminine profession across the world. To understand the root of the flow of women into the Journalism profession it is pertinent to begin at the university education level. Gallagher’s 1992 worldwide survey of female students in 83 journalism institutions reveals a significant increase in number of female students. Djerf-Pierre (2007) and others argue along Bourdieu’s conception of education as a form of social capital which empowers, enables and enhances women’s competitiveness in a pre-dominantly androgynous social arena. The study analyses 16 years of enrolment data of the Academic Affairs Unit of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), a leading Journalism, and Communication University in Africa, to understand the growing feminization of the journalism profession in Ghana. To this end the study, employs the UNESCO gender parity index model (GPI) to ascertain the gender parity ratio of male to female students enrolled at the University. Findings indicate a significant shift in the gender parity ratio in favour of women in the journalism education.

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Mitchell¹

1990

American Journalism

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Women in Journalism Education: The Formative Period, 1908–1930

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Where are the missing girls? Gender inequality, job precarity, and journalism students’ career choices in China

Where are the missing girls? Gender inequality, job precarity, and journalism students’ career choices in China

Reversal of Gender Disparity in Journalism Education- Study of Ghana Institute of Journalism

Scholarship on Women Working in Journalism

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